Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Will Return for The Mummy 4

Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly reuniting for The Mummy 4 with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – the filmmaking duo billed arsenic Radio Silence – directing the long-awaited sequel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fraser and Weisz are successful talks to instrumentality to the franchise that made them container bureau stars earlier they some went connected to triumph their respective Academy Awards (Fraser for The Whale and Weisz for The Constant Gardener).

Weisz sat retired the 3rd installment of the franchise, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, wherever her character, Egyptologist Eveleyn O’Connell, was replaced by Maria Bello.

That sequel besides aged up Rick and Evy’s lad Alex, who was introduced arsenic a kid successful The Mummy Returns, to beryllium a young man.

“It is unclear who other [from the archetypal cast] could return. One root describes the task arsenic not a reboot, but alternatively a sequel that would disregard the events of the 3rd movie. David Coggeshall wrote the screenplay,” THR reports.

Radio Silence’s breakout movie was 2019’s Ready oregon Not. They past rebooted the Scream franchise with 2022’s Scream and 2023’s Scream 6, and besides directed the vampire flick Abigail.

The Mummy 4 volition beryllium produced by the franchise’s archetypal producer, Sean Daniel, and Project X Entertainment’s William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein.

Universal Pictures antecedently tried to reboot The Mummy franchise – with the 1999 movie already a remake of the 1932 archetypal – successful 2017 with the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, which failed to respire beingness into the studio’s plans for Dark Universe, a shared beingness that reimagined the classical Universal Monsters.

The workplace besides released the Dwayne Johnson spin-off conveyance The Scorpion King, which beget its ain direct-to-video movie series.

Curiously, manager Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is produced by New Line Cinema, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster and volition beryllium released successful theaters by Warner Bros. connected April 17, 2026. It was made extracurricular of the Universal franchise and determination were rumors earlier this week that Warner Bros. has present retitled the movie The Resurrected, which would enactment an extremity to immoderate disorder with Universal’s franchise.

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